[25] Hist. Dev. 260.
[26] “Natural History,” x. 67, xxix. 4.
[27] Tylor’s “Primitive Culture.”
[28] Armorie of Honour, 62.
[29] “Coin Collector’s Manual,” Bohn.
[30] Book ix. ch. 13.
[31] The sign was also used by printers: John Rastall, brother-in-law to Sir Thomas More, “emprynted in the Cheapesyde at the Sygne of the Mermayde; next to Powlsgate in 1572.” Henry Binnemann, the Queen’s printer, dedicated a work to Sir Thomas Gresham, in 1576, at the sign of the Mermaid, Knightrider Street. A representation of the creature was generally prefixed to his books.—“History of Sign-boards,” p. 227.